Yeah - that’s why I was careful to say “most”. Stay away from weird “immutable” shit.

The “multiple distros thing” is often the most confusing aspect of the Linux ecosystem. But don’t sweat it too much - they’re more similar than different. Generally speaking you can do all the same things with most any distro.

The most user-facing differences are in the installer, default UI settings, and how applications are installed. A lot of it is simply preference.

All of the ones you mentioned are “fine”.

But if you want to “distro hop” (something that I consider to be a mostly pointless activity) then you need a way to preserve your home directory between installs. It’s where all of your settings are kept. The two ways of doing that are typically a) have a backup somewhere (recommended regardless) and b) put /home on a separate disk partition (more advanced - easily Googleable though).

To create an invite you:

# drop into mongo shell
docker compose exec database mongosh

# create the invite
use revolt
db.invites.insertOne({ _id: "enter_an_invite_code_here" })

That’s pretty jank.

Also - I’m getting pretty fed-up with self-hosting documentation that assumes very specific environments and goes into detailed configuration for that environment. Don’t tell me how to setup a server and how to enable/configure SSH and setup UFW as part of setting up your software. Just tell me how to setup your software and what ports it uses.

That fuck you mean? You can use these drives for any purpose you want.

They appear daunting, but the simple edits you’re talking about aren’t very difficult to do. I’ve used kdenlive for simple things and it’s pretty easy to learn. Your may just take a little Google for the first run through.

Sorry, I mean “it simply doesn’t work”.

And then when he try actually tries it everything breaks and he spends hours trying to get udev working from a distrobox container.

Good luck getting an admin to register your VM with Active Directory.

Yeah - I’ve even seen people recommend switching distros just because another has a different default DE without understanding that most distros let you install multiple DEs…

The differences between distros aren’t as big as people make them out to be*. Mostly just installer, how packages are managed, what versions of packages you get, etc.

• Unless you’re on an “immutable” distro in which case - yeah - shit is different.

I guess? It’s it a shame that lfs uses C code instead of the “less abstract” x86 assembly?

(I like having it in my daily driver, but it’s sad LFS had to drop support for a “lower level” init system)

It’s not lower-level, it’s just worse.

You’re not changing much when you’re changing distros

This needs to be a pinned comment on every distro-hopping post.

Sounds like you haven’t taken the time to properly design your environment.

Lots of home gamers just throw stuff together and just “hack things till they work”.

You need to step back and organize your shit. Develop a pattern, automate things, use source control, etc. Don’t just file follow the weirdly -opinionated setup instructions. Make it fit your standard.

Okay - then everything is working fine. You’ve ruled out all of your options.

I didn’t realize it was using a remote-desktop setup. Still 2-D rendering performance could be an issue in the browser depending on whether it’s using accelerated graphics or not.

There are performance metrics other than CPU/memory usage. Like network latency, disk i/o, and bandwidth. UI performance on remote desktops tends to suffer from latency even with fast machines on local networks. The “proxmox console” for VMs I run in browser is a remote desktop and it performs… well enough for a server but I wouldn’t want to do anything significant in it. And that’s just presenting a desktop.

You haven’t described the nature of your ‘poor performance’ well though. Is it display latency like I’m describing or things like loading projects or creating STL files that is slow?

Are you familiar with remote desktop or ssh?

Very.

I didn’t realize that’s what this was doing though. Still requires a bit of client-side rendering performance from the browser and network capability. Depending on what potato they’re using on the desktop the latency might be giving the perception of “slowness”.

It’s still an intensive part though.

A lot of the work FreeCAD does is in the client though. Rendering the display. That’s not going to be done server-side.

basically do nothing but websurf, and basic functions

That’s 99% of what most people do.

Neat.